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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Democrats who openly back L. Douglas Wader’s independent bid for State Senate are likely to have an easier time getting back in the good races of their party than Republicans who go public for independent MarshaU Coleman.
And that’s one major reason Wader has gotten significantly more normally Democratic activists to support him than Coleman has gotten activist Republicans.
Coleman was hoping that his public endorsements by Senator John Warner, whose popularity runs high with state voters, and former Gov. Linwood Holton would give his candidacy a legitimacy enticing Republicans to join it in droves.
Yet that has been far from the case. Indeed, there have been few people closely identified with the Republican Party willing to endorse him. The forces aligned with GOP nominee Oliver North have done so far an outstanding job in damage control despite predictions that if he won the nomination there would be many hundreds of defections from people who usually vote Republican. !
That’s not to say that sizeable numbers of people who backed Jim Miller for the nomination won’t yet opt to give some candidate other than North their vote this fall. But if thqy do, it will be for the most part done quietly in the privacy of the voting booth. /
‘For North that’s good news indeed since had Coleman been able to gather around him large numbers of Republican defectors it would have
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